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Allegations of sexual harassment interrupted Matthew Weiner's book tour to promote his debut novel, Heather: The Totality. A former writer on Mad Men accused him of a sexually inappropriate remark.

Robert Hunter on the Roots of the Grateful Dead

Evan S. Connell, an old American master, and Claire Keegan, a young Irish prodigy, both have new books of short fiction this summer — and both are worth picking up.

Writer Charles D'Ambrosio's The Dead Fish Museum reveal the dark sides of America, from psychiatric wards of Manhattan to the shores of Puget Sound. The collection of eight stories comes 10 years after D'Ambrosio's debut, The Point.

Henry Morgenthau III had a long and eventful life even before he started writing poetry in his 90s. Now, at age 100, he's promoting his first poetry collection, called A Sunday in Purgatory.

Each writer will receive $50,000 to help support their craft — one of largest awards granted to new authors.

Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs is about a lonely third-grade teacher who falls in love with the family of one of her students. Reviewer Lionel Shriver says the book so bursts with rage and desire that it barely squeezes between hard covers.

The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction." The award comes with $150K.

Poet and novelist Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009 — the year her German-language novel was first published. Now it's been published in English as The Hunger Angel.

Warming centers are available in Calloway County for individuals and families without shelter. An overnight center is available from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. at…